I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
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I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.
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My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
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I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
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Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
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Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.
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I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.
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I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.
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There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.
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25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.
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